Jordan E. Franklin hails from Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton and a PhD from Binghamton University. She is the author of the poetry collection, when the signals come home (Switchback Books, 2021), and the chapbook, boys in the electric age (Tolsun Books, 2021). Her work has appeared in SWIMM, Obsidian, Grist, the Southampton Review, Torch Literary Arts, Foglifter, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize, the 2020 Gatewood Prize, and the 2024 AWP Intro Journals Project Award. She has participated in residencies offered by Art Omi and the Stadler Center for Poetry. Her second poetry collection, make it to the end (of the movie), a 2025 Blessing the Boats selection, will be published by BOA Editions in Fall 2027.
